Burne Edward H (7 results)

hardcover. Condition: fine. near fine. 70 illustrations, 56 in full color. Folio, brown cloth, d.w. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1993). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Edward Burne-Jones (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: Good. Pp. x, 290, adverts. Covers stained. Else good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 278 pages. ex-library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original publisher's green pictorial cloth, elaborately decorated in darker green and gilt, with an embossed Norse warrior to the upper board, flanked by gilt birds amidst intricate foliage and interlacing ornament. Gilt lettering and decoration to the spine. Top edge gilt, remaining edges untrimmed. Illustrated throughout with monochrome plates after works by J. C. Dollman, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, K. Dielitz, H. Kaulbach, M. E. Winge and others. Large thick octavo, pp. xvi + 397 + publisher's advertisements. A Good copy. The binding showing rubbing and general wear, particularly to the spine ends and extremities, with slight bumping to the corners. The spine is somewhat age-toned, with minor pulling and wear at the head and foot. The decorative gilt remains well defined. The front inner hinge is cracked towards the lower section but holding firm. Foxing and spotting throughout, varying in intensity and heavier on the endpapers and certain leaves. The front free endpaper shows discolouration and a rectangular offset mark. A small pencilled notation and an early bookseller's label of E. S. Fowler, Eastbourne, appear on the front pastedown. Guerber's richly illustrated retelling of Norse mythology draws upon the Eddas and Icelandic sagas, recounting the legends of Odin, Thor, Loki, the Valkyries and the mythological world of the ancient North. An evocative early twentieth-century volume, particularly distinguished by its elaborate publisher's pictorial binding and extensive illustrations of Scandinavian myth and legend. J. C. Dollman; Sir Edward Burne-Jones; and others (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. x, 290 pages, with a two page publisher's advertisement at end. 220x145mm. Original publisher's green cloth, spine and front cover lettered gilt. *A four page unpaginated appendix, printed on light yellow paper on the "Under Sheriffs' Fees' Order, 1926." has been bound in, with a note that it had been issued after the text had gone to press. The Minister for Justice uses the Irish Language version of his name, C. Ó h-Uigín, at the end of the preface.* Slight wear to cloth and toning to text-block, otherwise a very good copy without any damage, library stamps, inscriptions or other markings. Images available on request. …

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. One of 300 paper copies. There were also eight vellum copies. This is one of the most desirable books to be printed at perhaps the most influential and famous of all private presses. A total of 52 books were produced during the several years it was active. In his definitive history of the Kelmscott Press, William Peterson describes this as "the penultimate book printed at the Kelmscott Press and an interesting example of how Cockerell (Sydney, who was the second Secretary of the Press.) was compelled to solve book-design difficulties on his own, as no work had been done before October 1896" (Morris died on October 3 of that year). Peterson continues to write that while the last books printed by the Kelmscott Press did not display a dramatic falling off of quality, they represent a reversion to the simpler of ornamentation of the very earliest Kelmscott books. For this edition, Burne-Jones redrew the full-page woodcut he originally prepared for the earlier print edition about 25 years prior. Frontispiece and full-page woodcut by W. H. Hooper after Edward Burne-Jones, decorative woodcut border to frontispiece and facing first page of contents, further woodcut borders in the text, three-, six-, and eight-line woodcut initials. Text printed in blue, red, and black in Troy type, stage directions mostly in Chaucer type. In the original limp vellum with yapp edges. The spine has title lettered in gilt. All six of the green silk ties are present. Light soiling to spine and covers and covers are a bit splayed. Interior pages are in beautiful condition. Housed in a custom box wiith dark green spine and page edges, with titling and press name in gilt to spine. A near fine copy of this stunning book, one of the two final works to be issued by the press. The other was a A Note by William Morris on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. Measures 11.5 x 8.25 inches. 90 pages. PRI/041726.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [6], 3-90pp, [2]. Publisher's full vellum, title in gilt to spine, silk ties. Very minor browning to spine edges, otherwise quite bright and clean. Now housed in a cloth drop back box by Temple Bookbinders. Former owner's bookplate to ffep (Lord Battersea). One of three hundred paper copies, with eight on vellum, actually issued in 1898, and the second Kelmscott Press book to be printed in three colours; the frontispiece and illustration on gr6 were designed by Burne-Jones and engraved by Hooper. Peterson A52 Size: 4to. Burne-Jones, Edward; Hooper, W. H. (illustrator).…